6000 Asteroids in Jupiter's 'Orbital Space,' 1 Going 'Wrong Way' | Orbit Animation
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 13:12
in Astronomy & Space
Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is the only known space rock in the solar system to travel in a retrograde orbit "while at the same time sharing a planet’s orbital space," according to Paul Wiegert of the University of Western Ontario.